cheesepare

English

Etymology

From cheese +‎ pare.

Verb

cheesepare (third-person singular simple present cheesepares, present participle cheeseparing, simple past and past participle cheesepared)

1. (intransitive) To pinch pennies; to be stingy or miserly.
   • 2001, Sheila Fletcher, Victorian Girls: Lord Lyttelton's Daughters:

     None of which he grudged, for he felt, like his father the third Baron, that one should never cheesepare on boys' education.

Related terms

• cheeseparing